The Influence of Position Promotion and Career Development on Job Satisfaction with Motivation Work as an Intervening Variable (Case Study: Department of Labuhan Batu)

Abstract

An organization will certainly never be able to carry out its functions if it does not have employees. So do not be surprised if each organization crave employees with maximum performance. Increasing the performance of each employee will affect organizational activities where it is expected by the organization that employees must always improve their performance for the benefit and benefit of the organization, therefore it is important for the organization to pay attention to the job satisfaction of each employee. This study aims to determine whether promotion and career development affect employee job satisfaction through work motivation as an intervening variable at the Labuhanbatu District Education Office. The study was conducted on 61 employees using a saturated sampling technique. The data collection technique used was primary data in the form of questionnaires and secondary data obtained through documentation studies. The data analysis technique used quantitative data which was processed using the SPSS version 25 program, namely the t test, Sobel test and path analysis. The results obtained in this study indicate 1) there is a significant influence between promotion on work motivation, 2) there is a significant effect between career development variables on work motivation, 3) there is a significant effect between job promotion variables on job satisfaction, 4) there is a significant effect between career development variables on job satisfaction, 5) there is a significant influence between work motivation variables on job satisfaction, 6) work motivation variables cannot influence position promotion variables on job satisfaction, 7) work motivation variables cannot affect career development variables on job satisfaction . Keywords: Job Promotion, Career Development, Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction